SET TOP BOX

Bangalore: Google Inc is expected to unveil at least one small settop box that resembles products like the Roku, Amazon's Fire TV, and Apple Inc's Apple TV, the Wall Street Journal reported citing sources who have seen the device.
Google will show off the settop box on Wednesday during its developer...

Panaji: Information and Broadcasting ministry will consult the Finance and Commerce ministries on exploring the possibility of having locally manufactured set top boxes for continuing the digitization process rather than depending on imports, I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Saturday.
The minister said the decision on the issue was pertinent considering...

New Delhi: Government has decided to junk advertisements which told consumers that their TV screens would go blank if they do not buy Set Top Boxes before the deadline for Digitisation and would instead try to convince the viewers of benefits of converting to the new system.
I&B minister Manish Tewari...

Las Vegas: Roku Inc. is launching a line of TVs that play video from services like Netflix without requiring a settop box. While similar to smart TVs on the market already, the company's Internet streaming platform offers some 1,200 apps and more comprehensive niche content choices.
The Saratoga, Californiabased streaming settop...

Mumbai: While we haven't yet seen a Google TV running a strippeddown version of Android, a new report says a Nexusbranded settopbox is incoming. Information magazine has the story of Google's plans to launch a settop box in the first half of 2014.
The TVconnected hardware will have a heavy focus...

New Delhi: DTH service provider Tata Sky today announced reduction in price of its high definition (HD) set top box to Rs 2,000 from Rs 3,100 earlier.
Now, Tata Sky HD set top boxes will be available at the price of a standard definition (SD) set top box, the company...

New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) deadline for switching to digitised TV ends on Tuesday. All those with cable connections may face a blackout after Tuesday. Cable operators were supposed to file customer details and their choice of television channels with the TRAI board by Tuesday. However,...

San Francisco: Amazon.com Inc will release a settop TV box later this year that will stream video over the Internet, challenging Apple Inc's Apple TV device and a similar gadget sold by startup Roku, BloombergBusinessweek reported on Wednesday.
The box will plug into TVs and give viewers access to Amazon's digital...

New Delhi: The government will not extend the deadline for the second phase of digitisation of TV settop boxes, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said on Wednesday.
"We are not going to relax the deadline. We want digitisation to go through," Tewari told reporters.
He added that transition from analogue to...

New Delhi: About onefourth of 1.6 crore households missed the deadline of television digitisation on Monday in 38 cities. But they may get a short transition period for switchover to Set Top Boxes depending on local conditions. However, the government insisted that the deadline for digitisation will not be extended...

Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Central government to ensure that analog channels are not switched off in the state till April 5, 2013. Justice Abdul Nazeer granted time to the Union government to file its objections to a petition seeking extension of the March 31, 2013...

New Delhi: The deadline set by the government for Cable TV digitisation in 38 cities across 14 states ends on Monday. Television sets without set top boxes would go blank. These cities are part of the second phase of digitisation as government claimed 67 per cent digitisation had been achieved...

New Delhi: The deadline set by government for Cable TV digitisation in 38 cities across fourteen states will end on Monday and television sets without set top boxes would go blank. These cities have been included in the second phase of digitisation as government claimed 67 per cent digitisation had...

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has requested the Centre to extend the digitisation deadline for his state by six months. In a letter to Minister of State (Independent Charge) for I&B Manish Tewari, Akhilesh said seven UP cities have been chosen in the second phase of digitisation. These...

New Delhi: Watching cable and satellite TV may turn expensive with the government proposing to double import duty on set top boxes (STBs) to 10 per cent but domestic manufacturers have welcomed the move. Reacting to Finance Minister P Chidambaram's announcement to hike import duty on STBs from the existing...

California: Top chipmaker Intel Corp plans to launch an Internet television service this year with live and ondemand content, entering a hotly competitive race as its core PC business erodes.
Shifting into an unfamiliar and potentially costly market in which Intel lacks experience and relationships, Erik Huggers, vice president and general...

The digitisation change in the Indian TV landscape brings to fore Darwin's theory of natural evolution by natural selection. Natural selection is a gradual, nonrandom process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers.
In the...

New Delhi: Television sets without set top boxes (STBs) in hundreds of households across Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata went blank as the deadline for switch over to cable TV digitisation ended on October 31 midnight. People watching various programmes faced a TV blackout when the clock struck 12. However, in...

New Delhi: The deadline for cable operators to switch to digital TV ends on Wednesday in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. What it essentially means is that if you don't have a set top box, then you can't watch TV starting Wednesday.
This is the first of the threestage process where...

New Delhi: DTH operator Dish TV launched its new settop box 'Dish+', which allows users to record programmes for watching later, and said it aims to increase its market share in 42 major cities to 30 per cent by this fiscalend.
Priced at Rs 1,690, the settop box will be...

Mumbai: A government review has revealed that in Mumbai, 50 per cent of cable TV homes have already been installed with set top boxes. In Mumbai, there is an estimated requirement of 34.85 lakh set top boxes and so far 17.07 lakh set top boxes have been installed.
The Cable...

Mumbai: From July 1, it will become mandatory for all TV viewers across the four metros to get digital set top boxes. But even as the process of mandatory conversion of analog cable signals to digital continues across the metros, industry experts have flagged off the need for introducing and...

New Delhi: The government has reduced the customs duty on liquid crystal display (LCD) television sets from 10 per cent to 5 per cent, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday.
Presenting the Union Budget for 200910, the minister also said a nominal 5 per cent customs duty has been imposed...

New Delhi: Pet food, biscuit, mouth freshener, footwear, water purifiers and filters and lowvalue cement would become cheaper and cigarettes, bidis, and set top boxes costlier as a result of the new Union Budget.
Cell phones would continue to remain cheap, as the Budget has extended the customs duty exemption period...

New Delhi: As the Conditional Access System (CAS) was rolled out on the eve of the New Year on Sunday, South Delhi people, who do not have a settop box (STB), could only receive FreetoAir Channels.
Popular pay channels like Star, Sony and Zee were blacked out from television screens in...

New Delhi: After three days, pay channels will die out of over two million homes in CAS designated areas, if a settop box or a direct to home (DTH) antenna has not been installed.
As the December 31 deadline approaches, competition is heating between providers; and consumers are being lured...